Carlos Hardenberg has been making radical changes to the portfolio of the £1.56bn (€2.04bn) Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust (TEMIT) since taking over its management from Mark Mobius in October last year, in an effort to end a string of severe underperformance.
In this video interview, Franklin Templeton’s head of European fixed income David Zahn explains how he sees great opportunities to make money from the Brexit referendum and the ensuing volatility. He also outlines why he thinks the dollar will resume its upward path.
Franklin Templeton Solutions vice-president Matthias Hoppe drills down on the risks and rewards of asset classes and the importance of diversification.
In this video interview, Franklin Templeton’s head of European fixed income David Zahn explains why he is redeploying his assets from government bonds to corporate bonds. He also challenges the notion that rising Fed rates mean the dollar will strengthen in the medium term.
In this video interview, the lead manager of the Franklin K2 Alternative Strategies fund Brooks Ritchey talks about his favourite metric to measure fund managers by, which is Value at Risk (VaR), or rather: expected performance to VaR in a stress test scenario.
With Mark Mobius stepping back from the helm of Templeton Emerging Markets after 26 years, you can’t help but feel that his conviction in the ‘Big Cs’ – commodities and consumers – has of late dented his standing.
Dylan Emery talks to Franklin Templeton’s European chief Jamie Hammond about one of the driving forces of the European funds industry in the past few years: the growth of multi-asset, outcome-orientated funds.
Relentless easy monetary policies and short term rates at virtually have kept market volatilities at remarkably low levels. Preparing for the next spike may not be such a bad idea as the effects of central banking measures start to wane.
Omar Gadsby takes a less-is-more approach in his role as head of fixed income fund selection at Credit Suisse. By Will Jackson
The European funds industry amassed net inflows of 3.5bn in August, with Italy, Spain and the UK taking the lion’s share of assets, according to Lipper
BlackRock, JP Morgan, Franklin Templeton and Pimco topped the European fund sales table in the first half of 2013, with combined net inflows of 50bn
The outperformance of long-duration ‘safe haven’ government bonds is unlikely to continue. By Anthony McDonald, senior investment research analyst at Morningstar OBSR.
